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![[Linked Image]](http://i426.photobucket.com/albums/pp347/pickle37849/_DSC1053_zps099eca34.jpg) Now I need to have a melting party. Have been sorting these on and off for a couple of weeks as time allowed. I would guess I had 50 lbs of zinc and iron trash in the mix. I have another 10 gallons to pick up at a local tire shop now.
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I have three five gallon buckets, each roughly 2/3 full, sitting on my garage floor waiting to be sorted. All I need is time...  Ed
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The middle bucket is all clip ons while the two outer ones are the stick on wheel weights. I'm gonna guess there is around 150-175 lbs of stuff to melt down.
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I would melt the two different types in separate smelts, and end up with two separate piles of ingots, because the lead alloy is different between the clip-ons and the stick-ons. That way you can blend alloys accurately in the final mix.
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These were my last 2 hauls: 200lbs sorted in the buckets, and about 300lbs in the jugs. ![[Linked Image]](http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0690_zps3484806c.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0689_zps53b15ed7.jpg) Started melting down to 200lbs, and got about 130 - 140lbs done in a couple hours a few weeks ago. ![[Linked Image]](http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m11/novalty1970/Reloading/Casting/DSCN0738_zpsdc433370.jpg) Plus went through the jugs and found about 20lbs of zinc, steel, iron, valve stems, nuts and bolts. So now I have about 340lbs of sorted lead. Going to have to spread that over a couple session, for the sake of my back.
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Are you guys selling the zinc and iron wheel weights to a recycler? If so, what's the going rate for zinc?
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I just finished smelting a large batch of cable sheathing that I scored and started sorting wheel weights. What a PITA! Its not hard, just boring. I'm working my way thru 600-800#, and hoping to get finished in time to smelt them before it gets really hot. I had a pretty good year scrounging, last year, and hoping for a good year, this year. Lightman
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I'd suggest "Smelt Sorting". Keep your alloy temps 650� (Zinc melts @ 785�)or so and the steel and zinc weights will magically float to the top where you skim them off. Easy breezy.
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"Smelting" is the process by which metal is extracted from raw ore. Melting lead wheel weights into ingot form is, well, melting lead.
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Well I extract the metal out of the pile of gunk, so I call it smelting. 
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